- Andy Warhol was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art
- His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture, and advertisement that flourished by the 1960s
| When did Andy Warhol die? / Died | 22 February 1987 |
Andy Warhol Net worth 2024 (estimated)
| | How much is Andy Warhol worth? | Under review
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Who was Andy Warhol? / Facts
- After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became a renowned and sometimes controversial artist
- His art used many types of media, including hand drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, silk screening, sculpture, film, and music
- His studio, The Factory, was a well known gathering place that brought together distinguished intellectuals, drag queens, playwrights, Bohemian street people, Hollywood celebrities, and wealthy patrons
- He managed and produced The Velvet Underground, a rock band which had a strong influence on the evolution of punk rock music
- He founded Interview magazine and was the author of numerous books, including The Philosophy of Andy Warhol and Popism: The Warhol Sixties
- He is also notable as a gay man who lived openly as such before the gay liberation movement, and he is credited with coining the widely used expression "15 minutes of fame"
- Warhol has been the subject of numerous retrospective exhibitions, books, and feature and documentary films
- The Andy Warhol Museum in his native city, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which holds an extensive permanent collection of art and archives, is the largest museum in the United States dedicated to a single artist
- Many of his creations are very collectible and highly valuable
- The highest price ever paid for a Warhol painting is US$105 million for a 1963 canvas titled "Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster)"; his works include some of the most expensive paintings ever sold
- A 2009 article in The Economist described Warhol as the "bellwether of the art market"
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